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Learnings for Week 35 2010

Just a few little tidbits this week, more on the "Rubinauts blog":http://blog.rubinauts.com/?p=167. * To stop annoying your coworkers when the volume is up on your mac go to Terminal Prefs > advanced and turn on Visual Bell instead of Audible Bell. There will be many high fives from the people in your immediate work area. * DoubleTake is a neat little program for OS X to stitch photos together. * To get history in IRB add these lines to ~/.irbc

require 'irb/ext/save-history'
#History configuration
IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 100
IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-save-history"

* gotapi.com recently switched the Rails documentation to Rails 3.0. If you need Rails and Ruby documentation from other versions railsapi.com is where it's at. You can build your own custom package of Rails and Ruby docs back to Rails 2.2.2 and either browse online or download a copy for your nightstand.